12th March
…Weekend. Decoration Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ just out in the last couple of days. Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’…
…Weekend. Decoration Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ just out in the last couple of days. Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’…
…Magnolia campbellii (ACUG 5330) planted in 2010 with rather small white flowers. Magnolia campbellii (ACUG 5330) Magnolia ‘Laura Saylor’. Magnolia ‘Laura Saylor’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x ‘J.C. Williams’ a rich…
…any at all this autumn. Cotoneaster glomeratus Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’ – worth registering and naming? (or has it already been?) Asia might check the list. Magnolia…
…Cream’ – the name seems to apply more to the buds than the fully open flower unless these two are labelled the wrong way around? Leucanthemum ‘Banana Cream’ Helenium ‘Ruby…
…a young replacement Magnolia sprengeri ‘Copeland Court’. Magnolia sprengeri ‘Copeland Court’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘Werrington’. Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘Werrington’ Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ x M. ‘Vulcan’. Magnolia…
…Diva ‘Burncoose’ The colour of Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ is superb. Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ First flowers in Tin Garden on the young (and as yet unnamed) Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x Magnolia…
…‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Nuccios Ruby’ – just one flower. Camellia reticulata ‘Nuccios Ruby’ Camellia reticulata ‘Butterfly Wings’…
…Pteris umbrosa Pteris umbrosa Dryopteris sieboldii Dryopteris sieboldii Pellaea rotundifolia Pellaea rotundifolia Blechnum brasiliense ‘Volcano’ Blechnum brasiliense ‘Volcano’ Doodia aspera ‘Rough Ruby’ Doodia aspera ‘Rough Ruby’ Polysticichum munitum Polysticichum munitum…
…Jewel’ ‘Nuccio’s Jewel’ ‘Primavera’ ‘Primavera’ ‘Matterhorn’ ‘Matterhorn’ ‘Ruby Wedding’ ‘Ruby Wedding’ ‘Drama Girl’ ‘Drama Girl’ reticulata ‘White Form’ reticulata ‘White Form’ Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ with its first flowers two years…
…flowering for the first time. Enkianthus serrulatus Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ just out. Also a newly planted group and with loads of flower. Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ Then a big…
…but the newly planted rhodos in Rookery Nursery Bed could do with a drink. Betula albosinensis ‘China Ruby’ is starting to develop nice bark on its stem five or six…
…The stunning red flowers of Astrantia major ‘Ruby Wedding’. Trillium luteum Astrantia major ‘Ruby Wedding’ The novel and unusual Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Greenapples’. [ALONGSIDE] The new to us Centaurea ‘Jordy’. Aquilegia…
…peeling. Two older specimens in Penvergate are much better and now 20 years old. Very different at present from the Werrington ‘Chinese Garden’ and ‘Bowling Green’ (now called ‘ChinaRuby’) forms…
…Amos Pickard seedling from Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’. Magnolia ‘Pickards Ruby’ grows nearby and on the drive. Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ 2020 – CHW First cuckoo heard by…
…are perhaps yet as spectacular as Betula albosinensis ‘Bowling Green’ and ‘Chinese Garden’ (the two Werrington wild collected original ferns) or, indeed, the newly named ‘China Ruby’. I have featured…
…to look disdainfully at Rhododendron ‘Ruby Hart’ which droops a bit naturally anyway but has clearly gone beyond the natural stage (little do they know we cut half off already)….
…much fault despite our drooping ‘Ruby Hart’. He did however state that the judges did not like the black and white steps but were impressed we had removed the hard…
…(laevifolia x maudiae) – Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x ‘Vairano’ (Marc) – Magnolia ‘Insubria’ (‘Atlas’ x ‘Star Wars’ 2) – Magnolia ‘Apollo’ x ‘Picard’s Ruby’ (WH) (Summer Lady) – Magnolia ‘Summer…
back to 17th March. The highlights of the visit to Tregrehan on Friday. Seedling from Camellia reticulata ‘Nuccios Ruby’ Edgeworthia chrysantha growing in open woodland Sarcocca wallichii with huge black…
…‘Greenway’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ (possibly ‘Pickards Ruby’) has taken a heavy wind battering. The inside of the tepals will be white when fully open as are the tips now. Magnolia…